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News – UBER’s bad week

The UBER service is very useful but their business practices have been called into question. Last Friday, UBER’s senior vice president for business, Emil Michael, said at a private dinner in Manhattan that UBER should hire its own investigators to dig up dirt on reporters who have openly criticized the company.

Specifically, reporters like Sarah Lacy. BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith attended that fateful NYC dinner and revealed the story on Monday. Lacy and other journalists were outwardly and obviously appalled. But there is always another side. BuzzFeed has key investors who also support Lyft, UBER’s main competitor. And those same investors also have a stake in PandoDaily, the online Tech magazine founded by Sarah Lacy. Definitely a tangled web.

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Michael Simonett

Michael Simonett is a Jr. Communications Manager at swissnex San Francisco. A graduate of the University of Basel in History and German, he came to San Francisco to explore what the Silicon Valley has to offer the digital world next. He is passionate about soccer, social media, politics, and history.